{"id":25148,"date":"2026-11-01T06:42:43","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T06:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/11\/01\/un-special-representative-nangarhar-afghanistan-visit\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T06:42:43","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T06:42:43","slug":"un-special-representative-nangarhar-afghanistan-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/11\/01\/un-special-representative-nangarhar-afghanistan-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Special Representative Holds First Visit to Nangarhar to Address Local Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rabiaa Fatima, the UN Secretary-General\u2019s Special Representative for Afghanistan and head of UNAMA, conducted her first provincial visit to Nangarhar province to familiarize herself with the challenges faced by the local population. During this trip, she met with Taliban officials, women, tribal elders, traders, and returning refugees, gaining firsthand insight into the issues and needs of the people in the province.<\/p>\n<p>UNAMA stated that during these meetings, the UN Special Representative emphasized the organization\u2019s commitment to supporting the rights and demands of the Afghan people. This comes amid the Taliban administration\u2019s ban, implemented since September 2025, on female Afghan UN staff entering the UN offices within Afghanistan, which has restricted the humanitarian and support activities of international organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Antonio Guterres, the UN Secretary-General, appointed Rabiaa Fatima as his Special Representative for Afghanistan on July 15, 2026, and she officially began her duties in Kabul on October 18. This provincial visit took place amid significant human rights challenges and restrictions in Afghanistan, particularly affecting women and vulnerable groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN Special Representative Rabiaa Fatima visits Nangarhar to assess local issues amid Taliban restrictions on female UN staff in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-secondary-headline","category-social-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}